Mayorga Wins over De LaHoya- prediction

[cybernica]

Yea Vargas got his ass handed to him and wasn't he roided up? Why is Vargas mentioned...hes chin can't even come close to Mayo. Didn't Tito hit Vargas with a Left hook in the begenning seconds of the 1st round that sent him dancing backwards. LOL... Even DLH has a better beard than Vargas.

[Kendo]

i was just telling my man that dlh still has it. he said that he hasnt won a fight since the tito fight which he won. he beat mosley the second time and messed up vargas. but like i said vargas is to proud to say that dlh wasnt going to finish him if they ref didnt step in. dlh is going to win this fight.

[cold]

The following characteristics are not politically correct but are part of the twisted appeal that Mayorga has as a fighter. Come on this is pure aggression and I like it. Just as Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has nationalistic appeal to the Iranian people so Mayorga has the same appeal to all the trash talkers and instigaters wanting an all out brawl.



Oh ya and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wouldn't last a single round with Mayorga except for Mahmoud might bring a nuke into the ring with him and Mayorgas cigarette would have a hard time competing.

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"No fighter has shown more hatred toward other human beings than Mayorga. He has gone after Oscar in many ways to prove his bigotry. He has berated Oscar's Mexican heritage (ethnic prejudice), questioned his sexual orientation (****phobia) and has even made derogatory statements about his wife (sexism).

It should have stopped there, but Mayorga chose to continue. He physically assaulted Oscar during a press conference -- hitting him behind the head -- and disrespected his deceased mother. Mayorga's morally debased behavior knows no bounds."- FRANKLIN McNEIL

[blockhead]

on the hbo website there is a poll and most of the people said dlh by ko!!! i think oscar will win a decision but he would have to bring a baseball bat to knock mayorga out. it just goes to show that big names make a big difference to people who enjoy watching boxing but dont understand it.

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The next great Star in Boxing.

"Despite everything I told him and despite all the insults that we traded, I still don't think he's man enough to stand in front of me, honestly," Mayorga said this week. "You know, regardless, it's still going to be the same result, like I said before, I'm going to knock him out.

"Oscar doesn't have sufficient balls to stand there and even try and do that and that it's not going to be the same result. Trinidad is a way better fighter than Oscar is and I'm going to prove that on May 6."

Mayorga's outrageousness and destructive power inside the ring, which he showed against Lewis and Vernon Forrest, has allowed him to retain his popularity despite disappointing losses to Cory Spinks and Felix Trinidad.

"My fight against Trinidad," explained Mayorga, "was one bad night that I had and it's one bad night that I never had in my career to be honest with you and it won't repeat itself. I'm making sure that it's not going to repeat itself."

While Don King loves working with Mayorga, the Hall of Fame promoter knows that his fighter has his faults.

"He's a guy that is a joy to promote," he said. "You know what I mean? Not only does he talk the talk, he walks the walk. His only Achilles heel is that he don't train. Alright, and so he knows this, but he's dependent upon his power so much that he figured that he don't have to train because once he hit a guy, he going to put him to sleep. Once we can dissuade him and disabuse him of that, which he has done on this Oscar De La Hoya camp. If he continues to train like that, you'll have one of the most phenomenal fighters in history with Ricardo Mayorga. He only beats himself because he feels that he just relies and depends upon his power."

A win over De La Hoya would be the most impressive of Mayorga's career and would reinstate his boxing reputation to some extent.

"Hopefully I expect to see the best out of Oscar," said Mayorga. "I don't expect for him to be like he was 10 years ago, but you know, I take that in stride. At the same time, I do expect him to come out and start boxing me, but I'm well prepared for that.

"It doesn't matter to be if he wants to come out boxing using distance. I've been working on cutting the distance short, keeping close and basically I'm going to prove my general ringmanship that night. He goes, 'I'm going to be the one dictating the pace of the fight'. I'm going to be the one dictating how many blows he's going to throw, how many blows I'm going to throw. So, it doesn't bother me at all. It's going to be the same result."

Asked to explain his intense dislike of De La Hoya, Mayorga answered in his own unique way.

"Simply put, I really just don't like him," he said. " Personally I just don't like him on a personal level. Least on a professional level and I've always said that. You know, I've always had a disdain towards him and especially now that he's going to fight with me. So, you know, just to prove that and I'll repeat what I said before in prior interviews and in the press tour is I want to stop his heart - I not only want to stop him, I want to stop his heart or detach his retina, one of the two. I really want to do damage to him.

"Like I said before, just like when you go back to the school yard, you know, there's a kid that you never met once in your life. You see him, you know, you've never spoken to the kid, but you just don't like him. That's the best analogy I can use. I just don't like him. You know, simply put, I just don't like him. There's really no explanation behind it."

While the smoking, drinking, women, out of the ring fights and car drag racing have taken much focus away from Mayorga's boxing career, Don King knows a media magnet and ring talent when he sees one.

"I'm looking at Ricardo as the next brilliant star in the sport of boxing," he said. "And so, a couple weeks the rest of the world will believe that too. And then we got to just keep him going to make him stay training like he has been for this fight to continue to train like that for every fight and then when he's off, he's having the fun. But when he's in camp, stay in camp and stay dedicated and committed."

Not that will be easy for King when it is the one and only Ricardo "El Matador" Mayorga involved.





Mayorga a breath of fresh air

People who reckon boxing is devoid of characters these days would do well to spend some quality time with Ricardo Mayorga.


The Nicaraguan, who goes in with 'Golden Boy' of the fight game Oscar De La Hoya on May 6, was once dubbed 'The craziest man in sport' by Ring Magazine.


The former WBA and WBC welterweight and current WBC light-middleweight champion, who admits to smoking two packets of cigarettes a day, is what my old PE teacher might deem a "loose cannon".


'El Matador' infamously swigs down beer and eats pizza and chicken legs when weighing in for fights, showing a tongue-in-cheek contempt for his opponents and the niceties of the sport in general.


He was a 6/1 betting underdog ahead of his fight with Vernon Forrest back in 2003, the year he really burst onto the world stage proper with an inimitable swagger.


But that didn't stop him bragging before the fight: "I will give him a whipping. Not even his dog will recognize him when he gets home."


When not fighting or making threats to his opponents, he likes nothing more than drag racing in the streets of his homeland, a pastime that is illegal in Nicaragua.


Yet behind the outlandish bravado and wild antics, there stands a boxer who can really fight.


He can look crude and is not the most stylish fighter ever to lace up a glove, but he loves a tear up and fights like an alley-cat in there.


He also has one of the best chins in boxing, and I still cringe when I remember the night he kept inviting Felix Trinidad, regarded as one of the hardest punchers in the sport 'pound-for-pound', to blast away at his chin as he held it out like a lantern and mocked the Puerto Rican.


Few are giving him a chance against De La Hoya, but the 'Golden Boy' may not truly be in love with the sport anymore and an upset is certainly possible.


De La Hoya, boxing's main draw outside of the heavyweight division, has been inactive since September of 2004 and will certainly be rusty.


With his promotional interests and talk of a farewell fight in September, he could also be taking his eye off Mayorga, who infamously slapped his Mexican-American rival across the face during a recent press conference.


Mayorga is certainly talking a good fight.


When asked how his preparations are going for the bout, the 28-5-1 (23) pride from Managu nonchalantly replied: "I don't have to prepare mentally all that much for this match because I'm always ready to fight.


"That's what I am, a Nicaraguan street fighter. Oscar is the one that needs to prepare mentally to face me."


There is genuine animosity between the fighters, who are polar opposites in terms of appearance and the way they live outside the ring.


Mayorga has a devil may care attitude to his life and hs career it would seem, and he has had to fight tooth and nail to get where he is in the sport.


In contrast De La Hoya, the TV executives darling, has been a draw ever since his gold medal display at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics (he turned pro amid a media frenzy soon after).


He is also a happily married family man these days who spends more time in a suit and tie than in a pair of boxing boots.


He is everything Mayorga is not, something that the Nicaraguan it seems is using as motivation for the bout.


"Most people don't understand that of all the fighters in boxing, Oscar is the one I like least. He's a pretty boy and it makes me want to defeat him.


"I have been sparring with live chickens as they emulate 'chicken' De La Hoya best. They run just like he does."


When pressed as to how he sees the fight going, Mayorga said: "Oscar's washed up. He is crazy to think he can try to stand up in front of me and take the punishment I will deliver. He was great at one time but logic and Mother Nature tell you he's washed up now.


"I don't want to leave the decision up to the judges so I'm going to knock him out before the sixth round."


Whether or not he can back up his boasts in Las Vegas on May 6 remains to be seen, but I for one wouldn't be totally surprised to see a cigar-chomping, pizza-munching, beer-swilling Nicaraguan celebrating long into the night in the 'City of Sin' in early May.

[MetalVomit]

Mayorga Beats DeLaHoya and I think by KO.

Why do you always pick the unlikely guy to win every time. You can't honestly truly think that the underdog is going to win every fight?

[maxorido]

the only way i see mayorga winning this fight if if he rushes oscar in the beggining and lands somthing big while oscar is still trying to get the rust out. the longer the fight goes, the more it will go in oscar's favor i think.

[-Antonio-]

Ive never seen cold pick someone who wasnt an underdog.

[mini Klitschko]

i hope i'm not alone here, and don't think i am, but i can't wait for this fight. absolutely perfect matchup. but i lost so much respect for mayorga with the, pardon my language, **** he was talking about oscar's wife and family and so on. trying to sell the fight, piss off oscar, whatever, he went pretty overboard. and oscar will make him pay i think. he's gonna fight like the golden boy again, and i'm picking de la hoya with a 10th round ko. i know about mayorga's chin, but oscar will keep pouring it on and on and just see a huge spurt when he sees mayorga starting to wane just a bit in the 10th.

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The fact that this thread was created, is bad news for those rooting for or betting on Mayorga.